# Iraniplectus

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
{{one source|date=June 2024}}
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| image = Iraniplectus bakhtiari artwork.jpg
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| image_caption = Artist's reconstruction
| extinct = yes
| genus = Iraniplectus
| species = bakhtiari
| display_parents = 3
| parent_authority = Tyler, Mirzaie & Nazemi 2006<ref>Tyler, J.C.; Mirzaie, M.; Nazemi, A. (2006). New genus and species of basal tetraodontoid puffer fish from the Oligocene of Iran, related to the Zignoichthyidae (Tetraodontiformes). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona Geologia Paleontologia Preistoria, 30, 49-58</ref>
| authority = Tyler, Mirzaie & Nazemi 2006
| synonyms = 
| synonyms_ref = {{citation needed|date=}}
}}

'''''Iraniplectus bakhtiari''''' is an extinct relative of modern-day [pufferfish](/source/pufferfish) and [porcupine fish](/source/porcupine_fish) from the [Middle Oligocene](/source/Rupelian) of [Iran](/source/Iran).  It is closely related to the [Eocene](/source/Eocene) ''[Zignoichthys](/source/Zignoichthys)''.

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Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Category:Oligocene fish
Category:Tetraodontiformes
Category:Fossils of Iran
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2006

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